GFW claims The Dish, leaves rest of The Atlantic alone

andrew_sullivan.jpg Looks like someone in the censorship bureau has an itchy trigger finger and Andrew Sullivan's The Dish has become the latest casualty. Yep, the rest of The Atlantic is completely unbanned, including James Fallows' corner - which is where most of the publication's China-related content is stored. We've mulled over it, but we have no idea why this one got GFWed. The most recent post is about Balkanization, hardly something China feels strongly about. The last post on China was a discussion of Jim Crow-like laws which diverted into why white faces get hired as English teachers more. Its jump off point: James Fallows' (who, we repeat, is unblocked) picture of a "No Uyghurs should apply" sign at a Xinjiang restaurant. We guess it just goes to show that anything and nothing can get you blocked here.

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The Dish aggregated news and tweets about the Iranian election quickly becoming the epicenter of all things 'Green Revolution' for Western news junkies. I think Beijing doesn't want him repeating that for anything China-related. You can call this a preemptive block.

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